- Oliver Watts, Death and the Maiden, etched acrylic and oil paint, 2006
- Oliver's work presented on Match Box Friendship Wall/ l/2doz. Match Box Gallery
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Oliver Watts
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This work extends works that Watts began creating in 2004. Responding to the masculine craft of scrimshawing Watts created fake whales teeth and corset busks out of acrylic; these objects were traditional gifts given by sailors to their loved ones in the nineteenth century. Since then Watts has experimented with etched acrylic jewellery, of which this work is like a sampler. The theme of Death and the Maiden is a traditional motif and the baroque nature of the cartouches seems to lend itself to this sort of subject.
- Above Statement provided by 1/2doz.
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